I took a day trip to Cape Reinga which also takes you along 90 mile beach (even though it's only 64 miles long!) 90 mile beach is actually classed as a road but can only betravelled when the tide is out. The bus we were in was more of a converted 4w dive truck and just as well because there was a few cars half buried in the sandwhere people had been caught out. We pretty much just squeezed through in time as the tide was coming in fast and parts of the beach w...

I decided the book the Stray bus tour which takes me round allof the North ansd South Island. It cost me NZ$1200 (£545) of my hard earned bucks so it better be worth it! I was picked up by the Stray bus at about 8 this morning to head up to the ay of Islands and Cape Reinga. The Bay of Islands is one of the prettiest places in NZ (or so I'm told) with turquoise water and about 150 islands with beautiful sandy beaches. The samll town of Russel is the birthpla...

I arrived at LAX airport about 3 hours before my flight was due to depart at 1145pm. At checkin the American woman working for Qantas said that I must provide documentary evidance that I would be leaving NZ within 6 months of arrival before she would give me my boarding pass. I explained to her that being a British citizen I don't need to have an outwards ticket booked unlike American Citizens but she was a bit of a b**** and wasn't kistening to a word I was sa...

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